Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board advises and supervises the Executive Board. The number of members in and the composition of the Supervisory Board are determined by the Articles of Incorporation and the Agreement of the Involvement of the European Employees in SAP SE. SAP's Supervisory Board currently comprises nine members elected by the shareholders at their General Meeting and nine members representing the European employees of the SAP group.

Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Hasso Plattner

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Elected to Supervisory Board: 2003
Current term expires: 2019

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee (Chairman), Technology and Strategy Committee (Chairman), Nomination Committee (Chairman), Special Committee (Chairman), People and Organization Committee (Chairman)

Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Hasso Plattner is one of the founders of SAP and has been Chairman of the
Supervisory Board since May 2003. In this role and as Chief Software Advisor he concentrates
on defining the medium and long-term technology strategy of SAP. He also heads the Technology
Committee of the SAP Supervisory Board. In 1972 Hasso Plattner and four colleagues left
IBM in order to found SAP (Systems, Applications, Products). When SAP went public in 1988
Hasso was appointed Vice Chairman of the Executive Board. From 1997 to May 2003 he was
Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of SAP. In May 2003 he was elected to the SAP Supervisory
Board and took over the chairmanship from co-founder Dietmar Hopp. Hasso received
his Master‘s Degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. In 1990
the University of Saarbruecken awarded him an honorary doctorate and in 1994 he was granted
an honorary full professorship. In 1998 he founded the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for IT
Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam with the largest single private contribution to
a university ever made in Germany. He is a professor at the HPI for enterprise software systems.

Margret Klein-Magar

Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory BoardChairperson of the Spokespersons’ Committee of Senior Managers of SAP SEVice President, Head of SAP Alumni Relations

Elected to Supervisory Board: 2012
Current term expires: 2019

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee, Finance and Investment Committee, Technology and Strategy Committee

Margret Klein-Magar is vice president in the SAP SE human resources department. She joined SAP in 1991, working on technology platform development and in service and support. From 2000 to 2007, she headed a global product management organization in the technology platform field. After that, she drove change management and transformation in SAP development until the end of 2011. Ms. Klein-Magar has also chaired the committee of senior management spokespersons at SAP SE since 2007 and coordinates the global Executive Network of SAP SE. She studied Information Science, Sociology, and Social Psychology at the University of the Saarland, which admitted her to the degree of Magistra Artium in 1991.

Pekka Ala-Pietilä

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: Technology and Strategy Committee, Nomination Committee, Special Committee

Pekka Ala-Pietilä was CEO and co-founder of Blyk Ltd., a mobile media company. Prior to that,
he spent over 20 years in Nokia senior management: from 1992 to 1998 as President of Nokia
Mobile Phones, and most recently, from 1999 through 2005, as President of Nokia Corporation
and Head of Customer Market Operations. Pekka Ala-Pietilä currently serves on the SAP
Supervisory Board, and since 2011 he has been the chairman of the Board of Solidium Oy, a
state-owned Finnish holding company that is a major shareholder in 12 listed companies. He currently serves also as Chairman of the Board of Huhtamaki Oyj, a global packaging company. He is an honorary member of Ornamo, the Finnish Association of Designers. Pekka Ala-Pietilä
read economics at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He holds
an honorary doctorate of Technology from Tampere and an honorary doctorate of Science
from Helsinki. He is also a first class knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

Other board memberships*:

Board of Directors, Pöyry Plc, Vantaa, Finland

Chairman of the Board of Directors, CVON Group Limited (UK), London, Great Britain

Panagiotis Bissiritsas

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: Finance and Investment Committee, Technology and Strategy Committee, Audit Committee

After studying Business Mathematics at the University of Augsburg, Panagiotis Bissiritsas joined SAP in 1999. Until 2005 he worked as a technical consultant. Since then he has worked in the technical validation for the product standard performance and the German Works Council of SAP SE. Since 2014 he is the deputy chairperson of the German Works Council and also a member of the European Works Council.

Martin Duffek

Product Manager

Elected to Supervisory Board: 2015
Current term expires: 2019

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: Audit Committee, People and Organization Committee

Martin Duffek has been a Product Expert at SAP SE since 2003. Prior to that, he worked at Coopers&Lybrand and PricewatehouseCoopers as financial and information system auditor, serving clients of different size and different industries. At SAP, he held various positions leveraging his wide experience with globalization, accounting, financial and product legal compliance and integration. His focus is on SME products within the Product and Innovation Board area. For several years, he also worked in portfolio planning, business case management and controlling. Mr. Duffek studied and holds master degree in Corporate Finance from Faculty of Management of Comenius University, Slovak republic. Mr. Duffek is member of the SAP SE Works Council Europe. He lives with his family in Bratislava, Slovak republic.

Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph. D.

Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty (Chair of Intelligent Networks and Management of Distributed Systems) at the Technische Universität Berlin

Elected to Supervisory Board: 2012
Current term expires: 2019

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: Technology and Strategy Committee, People and Organization Committee

Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph.D., is a professor at the Technische Universität Berlin. Previously, she was a professor in the computer
science department at the Technische Universität München and the Universität des Saarlandes.
Prior to that, she was a member of the IP Network Measurement and Performance Department
at AT&T Labs — Research. Currently Anja Feldmann focuses her research on improving the performance
of the Internet. In 2011, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and the
Berliner Wissenschaftspreis (Berlin Science Prize). Anja Feldmann studied computer science
at the University of Paderborn and received her degree in 1990. In 1991 she received a Master
of Science and in 1995 a Ph.D. in computer science, both from Carnegie Mellon University.

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Haarmann

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee, Finance and Investment Committee (Chairman), Special Committee, People and Organization Committee

Wilhelm Haarmann is a lawyer, a certified public accountant, a certified tax advisor and since March 1, 2013 partner of the international law firm Linklaters LLP and has his office in Frankfurt am Main. Until the end of February 2013 Wilhelm Haarmann was name partner of HAARMANN Partnerschaftsgesellschaft, which he founded together with other partners in the beginning of 2006. He mainly advises on tax law, company law as well as on corporate transactions (M&A, private equity), and he is active as arbitrator in arbitration proceedings. Wilhelm Haarmann is a member of the SAP Supervisory Board. He is chairman of the tax committee of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) and a member of the Executive Board of the International Fiscal Association’s German section. From 2005 until 2009 he was a member of the Executive Board of the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Furthermore, he was 15 years long a member of the World Economic Forum (until 2007). Before founding HAARMANN Partnerschaftsgesellschaft, he was partner at Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, which he co-founded in 1987. Before the firm was founded he was working for Arthur Young & Co. in Frankfurt (1977 - 1979) and for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. in Munich (1979 - 1987, since 1983 as partner). Wilhelm Haarmann is honorary professor for tax law at the University of Bamberg. He studied law and economics at the Universities of Münster and Freiburg. From 1974-1976 he was a trainee lawyer at Bielefeld and 1979 he did his doctors degree at the University Münster.

Andreas Hahn

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee, Technology and Strategy Committee

Andreas Hahn joined SAP as a working student in 1992 while studying mathematics and information technology at the University of Mannheim. He worked in the Communications Media department until 1997, during which time he drove the rollout of multimedia and helped establish SAP's first Internet presence. Following a brief stint in internal system development, he transferred to the SAP LinuxLab in 1999, where he was in charge of numerous development projects and trade fair appearances. In 2003, Andreas was appointed to a strategic in-memory development project, which eventually became part of SAP HANA. He later went on to become the technology coordinator for open source software in the Global Open Source Office in 2005, and thereafter joined the Central Technology Strategy Team in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer. He is currently a product expert for industry standards and open-source software development.
Andreas has been a member of the Works Council of SAP SE since 2006. In 2009, he co-founded the ver.di union site group at SAP and has been a member of its Executive Board ever since.

Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost

Professor for Design Research and Head of the Design Research Lab, University of Arts Berlin

Elected to Supervisory Board: 2015
Current term expires: 2019

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: Technology and Strategy Committee, People and Organization Committee

Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost is a Professor for Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts and since 2005 is heading the Design Research Lab. She conducts research and development projects with international partners in the areas of human-computer-interaction, wearable computing, as well as user-centered design and participation.
Gesche Joost is Germany’s Digital Champion on the European Commission’s Digital Agenda initiative. She advises the Commission on implementing the Digital Agenda for Europe, focusing on digital skills, the digitization of work, and support for startups.
Up until 2010, she was a junior professor for Interaction Design & Media at the Technical University of Berlin in cooperation with Telekom Innovation Laboratories. As a visiting professor, she taught Gender and Design at the HAWK Hildesheim. In 2009, she received the Young TalentAward for Science from the mayor of Berlin. She is the chairwoman of DGTF e.V.[German Society for Design Theory and Research] and a board member for theTechnologiestiftung Berlin. She is also a board member of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), an appointed member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) as well as a full member of the Goethe Institute.

Lars Lamadé

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee, Special Committee, People and Organization Committee

Lars Lamadé began his career at SAP after passing his university-admission exams in 1990. From 1991 through 1994, he studied business administration - specializing in business information technology - at the University of Cooperative Education (Duale Hochschule) in Mannheim, Germany, in cooperation with SAP AG. Following his graduation, Lars was able to gather valuable experience in a variety of areas: Between 1994 and 1998, he worked in product marketing for R/3 PM, industry marketing for utilities and telecommunications, marketing communication for the European subsidiaries, and executive marketing. Between 1999 and 2001, he was responsible for supporting the Marketing and Business Development departments in the Global Partner Program, working closely with - among others - HP and Compaq. In 2002, Lars was elected as an employee representative on the Supervisory Board, a position that he has held for the last ten years. In 2003, he transferred to HR, where he was responsible for graduate recruitment and where his duties included organizing events for graduate applicants to SAP. Since 2004, he has worked as a project manager in the OPD Operations Office. His main duties include managing sponsoring activities and employee motivation programs, as well as organizing and conducting a variety of events and projects.

Bernard Liautaud

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee, Technology and Strategy Committee, Nomination Committee

Bernard Liautaud is general partner at Balderton Capital, a premier venture capital firm in Europe managing $2.3billion in committee capital and is located in London. Bernard founded Business Objects in 1990 and was CEO for 15 years, then served as Chairman until January 2008. With 6,700 employees, 45,000 customers and $1.5 billion of revenue in 2007, Business Objects was the world leader in Business Intelligence and one of the 15 largest software companies in the world. Business Objects was the first European software IPO on Nasdaq in 1994. In January 2008, Business Objects was acquired by SAP for $6.8 billion, making it the third largest software acquisition at the time. Bernard is a member of the SAP Supervisory Board and its strategy committee.He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.. Bernard Liautaud is the author of the book “e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit”. He is a member of the Board of Fondation MSF (Doctors without Borders), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. He has received a number of distinctions including “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2007 in France, “Time Magazine Europe‘s” Digital Top 25 and “BusinessWeek” Stars of Europe of 2002, Top 10 CEOs in North America by “Chief Executive Magazine” in 2001. Education: Diplôme d‘Ingénieur, Ecole Centrale de Paris, and Master of Science, Engineering Management, Stanford University.

Christine Regitz

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: Technology and Strategy Committee (Vice Chairperson), People and Organization Committee

Christine Regitz is the vice president of User Experience at SAP SE. After completing her studies in business administration and physics at Saarland University and the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), Christine worked as a consultant at IDS Prof. Scheer. In 1994 she moved to DACOS Software GmbH, which at that time had already been acquired by SAP. After a brief period in consulting, Christine transferred to the development department of SAP, where she has since held various positions and responsibilities primarily in the areas of manufacturing industries and transportation management with additional focus on industry solutions for retail/consumer industries and energy management. In her current function she is responsible for the development of SAP Fiori in connection with SAP S/4 HANA.Christine is co-founder of the Business Women’s Network at SAP and is a certified business coach and mediator.She is also an honorary member of the extended management board of the German Informatics Society (GI) and the spokesperson for its Women and IT special interest group. In addition, Christine serves as the deputy spokesperson for the BITKOM working group Women in ITC (Information Technology and Telecommunications), is a member of the high-level advisory committee of the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT), and sits on the board of trustees of the Steinbeis Foundation.

Dr. Erhard Schipporeit

Independent Management Consultant

Elected to Supervisory Board: 2005
Current term expires: 2019

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: Audit Committee (Chairman), Special Committee

Dr. Erhard Schipporeit is an independant management consultant. He is a non-executive director
with TUI Travel PLC, and is a member of a number of supervisory boards, including that of SAP
SE, Deutsche Börse AG, Talanx AG, BDO AG, and Hanover Rueckversicherung AG. He started his
career in 1979 in the Bosch Group and in 1981 he joined VARTA AG/VARTA Battery AG, at that
time a leading European battery company, where he became Chief Financial Officer in 1990 and
Chief Executive and Chairman of the Executive Board in 1993. After the successful restructuring
of VARTA the next move in his career brought him to the Munich-based conglomerate company
VIAG AG as CFO. VIAG merged in 2000 with VEBA AG to form the new E.ON AG, one of the world‘s
leading utility companies, where he became member of the Executive Board and CFO from 2000
to 2006. Dr. Schipporeit has a Ph.D in Business Administration from the University of Göttingen.

Robert Schuschnig-Fowler

Account Manager / Senior Support Engineer

Elected to Supervisory Board: 2015
Current term expires: 2019

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committee: People and Organization Committee

Robert Schuschnig-Fowler has been a member of the SAP SE Works Council since April 2014. Since November 2014, Robert is also acting Deputy Chairman of the SAP SE Works Council Europe. After completing his humanities studies in the USA and Germany, he went on to teach English and German at the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia. Robert joined SAP in 1998 and initially worked in the IBU Public Sector and then at SAP University. In 2001, he moved to SAP Language Services as the account manager for the translation of SAP training materials. Robert Schuschnig-Fowler is a member of the Executive Board of the ver.di union site group at SAP.

Dr. Sebastian Sick

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee, Finance and Investment Committee, Special Committee

Sebastian Sick, LL.M.Eur., is a lawyer and head of the commercial law unit of the Hans Böckler Foundation, a non-profit organization in Düsseldorf. Sebastian provides advice to employee representatives on supervisory boards on social and codetermination issues. He is a national and international expert on the topics of European company law, corporate governance, and codetermination rights, as well as co-author of the standard work "Supervisory Practice – Handbook for Employee Representatives on Supervisory Boards". He has also served as expert on the German government commission for corporate codetermination (Biedenkopf Commission II), in hearings of the German parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), and for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among others.

Sebastian studied law at the University of Cologne and completed his postgraduate studies in European integration with an LL.M.Eur. (Master of European Law) at Saarland University, complemented by a number of practical placements in New York and Sarajevo. In 2001 he won the Hans Werner Osthoff Prize for achievements in European law. Sebastian subsequently obtained his doctorate in 2007 with a comparative study of corporate governance practices in Germany and the United Kingdom. Sebastian served as a member of the Special Negotiating Body of SAP employees in connection with the conversion of SAP AG to SAP SE and was elected to the Supervisory Board of SAP SE in 2015 as a common candidate of IG Metall and Verdi.

Jim Hagemann Snabe

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee, Finance and Investment Committee

Jim Hagemann Snabe joined SAP in 1990 and was co-CEO of SAP between February 2010 and May 2014. He was a member of the SAP Executive Board between July 2008 and May 2014. Since 1990, he has held various management roles in consulting, sales, and development. In 2002, he was asked to join the company’s global development unit to bring product development efforts closer to the market. In this capacity, and as a member of the SAP Executive Board and Global Managing Board, Snabe focused on developing and executing SAP's strategy, together with Bill McDermott. The co-CEOs strengthened relationships with customers and partners, drove SAP's innovation portfolio across all markets, and ensured operational excellence across the company. Snabe's views about the role which leaders and IT need to play in creating sustainable growth and responsible business strategies have been strongly shaped by his commitment to environmental and humanitarian issues. Snabe received a master's degree in operational research from the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. He lives with his family in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Pierre Thiollet

Webmaster

Elected to Supervisory Board: 2015
Current term expires: 2019

Member of the following Supervisory Board Committee: Technology and Strategy Committee

Pierre Thiollet majored in both Computer Science and Organizational Sociology. He has worked for various IT companies before joining the Paris Chamber of Commerce as a project manager. In 1998 he resumed his studies and obtained a Master in Digital Media at ESIEE Paris (member of the “Conférence des Grandes École Francaises”). He then joined Business Objects in 1999 as the webmaster of the development group. Since the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP in 2008, Pierre Thiollet works in the SAP Paris Lab as an IT consultant.
Pierre Thiollet has been representing employees since 2002 when he established the first employee union at Business Objects. He was then the employee representative on the Board of Directors of Business Objects between 2006 and 2010. He also represented France within the special negotiation body for the first European Works Council at SAP. Currently he is a member of the SAP France Works Council; Secretary for the Hygiene, Security and Working Conditions Committee, and Union Delegate.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing E. h. Klaus Wucherer is the President of the International Electrotechnical
Commission, Geneva, Switzerland. He is also managing director of the Dr. Klaus Wucherer
Innovations and Technologieberatung GmbH consultancy. He is also a member of the SAP
Supervisory Board, as well as the supervisory boards of Leoni AG, Dürr AG and Heitec AG. From
1999 through 2007 he was a member of the Corporate Executive Committee of Siemens AG.
Prior to joining the Siemens Corporate Executive Committee, he held many positions within
the company including serving as president of the Automation and Drives Group, and serving
as head of several subdivisions and divisions. He started his career at Siemens in 1970 as a
project engineer. Klaus Wucherer studied electrical engineering and mechanical engineering and
received a doctorate in engineering. He is an honorary professor at the Technical University of
Chemnitz, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and Tongji University in Shanghai, China.
Klaus Wucherer is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of IPK-Berlin. He has received several
distinctions including an honorary doctorate of engineering from the University of Erlangen-
Nürnberg and the Nicolau Award from the International Academy for Production Engineering.

The SAP Supervisory Board has appointed committees to prepare its deliberations and implement resolutions – a measure allowed by the law.

General and Compensation Committee

The General and Compensation Committee coordinates the work of the Supervisory Board and prepares the meetings of the Supervisory Board. Also, the Committee carries out the preparatory work necessary for the personnel decisions made by the Supervisory Board, e.g. remuneration as well as conclusion of, amendments to, and termination of Executive Board members' work contracts. Further, the General Committee handles matters concerning Corporate Governance.

Nomination Committee

In accordance with a recommendation in the German Corporate Governance Code, SAP has a Nomination Committee. The purpose of the Nomination Committee is to propose suitable candidates for the Supervisory Board to recommend when the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders elects Supervisory Board members. The membership of the Nomination Committee is drawn entirely from among the shareholder-elected Supervisory Board members.

People and Organization Committee

The People and Organization Committee deliberates on key personnel matters and major organizational changes below Executive Board and Global Managing Board level; it also deliberates on equal opportunities for women at SAP. The Committee only advises the Executive and Supervisory Board on these matters. The Committee members are the Supervisory Board chairperson and seven other members of the Supervisory Board.